Who Should Be Time's Person of the Year?

Newt Gingrich, Bryan Cranston, Matt Lauer and others sit down to discuss

At the Time & Life building in New York this afternoon, media types convened over lunch to hear a rather diverse panel of newsmakers—including former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, Today host Matt Lauer, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston and Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi—discuss who should receive the title of Time magazine’s 2012 Person of the Year.

Actually, it may be more accurate to say “what” than “who”—because, as today's debate revealed, “person” can have a pretty broad definition.

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